Current treatment of vestibular, ocular motor disorders and nystagmus

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 223-239

  Strupp, Michael ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo; dizziness; downbeat nystagmus; episodic ataxia type 2; Meniere's disease; upbeat nystagmus; vertigo; vestibular migraine; vestibular neuritis; vestibular paroxysmia

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIAMINOPYRIDINE; 4 AMINOPYRIMIDINE; AMINOPYRIDINE; BACLOFEN; BETAHISTINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DEXAMETHASONE; GABAPENTIN; GENTAMICIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MEMANTINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOPROLOL; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TOPIRAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR; VALPROIC ACID; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ACQUIRED PENDULAR NYSTAGMUS; ATAXIA; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONING VERTIGO; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STIMULATION; CENTRAL POSITIONAL NYSTAGMUS; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; CONVALESCENCE; DIET THERAPY; DIZZINESS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPISODIC ATAXIA TYPE 2; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OCULAR FLUTTER; OPSOCLONUS; PARESTHESIA; PENDULAR NYSTAGMUS; PERIODIC ALTERNATING NYSTAGMUS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SEESAW NYSTAGMUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SQUARE WAVE JERK; TORSIONAL NYSTAGMUS; UPBEAT NYSTAGMUS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR PAROXYSMIA; VESTIBULE;

EID: 77953446369     PISSN: 17562856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756285609103120     Document Type: Review

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